One thing that came to mind when I read your post was an example Pirsig gave in his first book “Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. He was teaching writing – and he did an experiment (I am not sure I have the exact details right but you will get the idea). Students were required to read/present their written work to the class. Despite the very different qualities of writing between the students – there was almost a unanimous agreement on which were the best works.

The web is a context. The more you generalize about it, the less people you are actually describing. But I will risk my perspective of the web – it is driven mostly by social needs – thus it is of social qualities. It is overflowing with information, so people offer any one item very little attention. These two factors alone mean to me that web-acceptance is a very low quality indicator of quality! The web is overall a mediocre body of content at best.

Quality content is not there not because it does not exist, but because the web is not a relevant place for it.